Re: [Mageia-dev] 3.0 release - some initial notes; failure

2013-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
the people all the time. Regards, Shlomi Fish Liam -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Networking Clients - http://shlom.in/net-clients Java is a DSL (= Domain Specific Language

[Mageia-dev] [ANN] The RPM Spec Lingo - Call for Contributions

2012-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting . So see: * https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia-Mandriva-Fedora-SUSE_RPM_Spec_Lingo It's currently very much work in progress, and the formatting could use some work, but it's a start. Feel free to contribute - Be Bold and edit. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl(B::C) installation problem

2012-12-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
, it is uninstallable. P.S: next time please use «export LC_ALL=C» for the commands to display the errors and warnings in English. Regards, Shlomi Fish Regards. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

2012-12-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
that Development/Python is intended for packages which provide general development libraries for python, and if the library fits into an obvious other category (i.e. python routines for cosmology calculations) those should go into the other category. Sounds good. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a Mentor

2012-12-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
, they do not initiate enough activity on their own, so I'm not too occupied with them. You can find me on IRC as rindolf on #mageia-mentoring . Regards, Shlomi Fish Thanks, -- - Shlomi Fish http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)

2012-12-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
and other Linux distributions as well as Windows and FreeBSD run fine on different VMs). If anyone can she any light on this issue, I'll be grateful as well. Regards, Shlomi Fish Here are the Centos 6 files: Spec-file: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/spec-files/perl-MIDI-ALSA.spec

Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)

2012-12-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi tux99, On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:59:25 +0100 (CET) tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote: I now packaged your perl-MIDI-ALSA for Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron after some Mageiaisation of the .spec file. Thanks! That's great, thanks! You're welcome. If you

[Mageia-dev] Updating python-lxml

2012-11-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Phillipe, can you update python-lxml to 3.0.1 or is there any reason it wasn't updated yet? Otherwise, I can update it (it was a matter of changing the version, and running mgarepo sync -d and rebuilding). Regards, Shlomi Fish

[Mageia-dev] Fw: GPL-compatibility Question: Distributing Binaries of GPLed Programs Which Link Against Non-Free Code

2012-11-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Aaron, I am forwarding your reply to the Mageia development mailing list. Regards, Shlomi Fish Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:55:12 -0500 From: Aaron Williamson aar...@softwarefreedom.org To: shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: GPL-compatibility

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't start LibreOffice since last update

2012-11-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
: _ZNK3icu14LEFontInstance10getSubFontEPKDsPiiiR11LEErrorCode Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ C++ supports Object‐Oriented Programming roughly

[Mageia-dev] GPL-compatibility Question: Distributing Binaries of GPLed Programs Which Link Against Non-Free Code

2012-11-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
of the program under the GPL? We would appreciate any advice that you can give to us on the matter. Sincerely yours, — Shlomi Fish, on behalf of the Mageia development team. -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List

Re: [Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Donald and Johnny, On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:15:09 + Donald Stewart watersnowr...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 November 2012 00:45, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2012 23:39, Shlomi Fish wrote: Dear sirs or madams, To me, this sounds a little to generic

Re: [Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:49:20 +0100 Pierre Jarillon jaril...@abul.org wrote: Le mardi 6 novembre 2012 23:39:43, Shlomi Fish a écrit : So our question is: assuming we package faac as a package, can we still provide pre-made and binary packages of GPLed programs that use it? you can add few

[Mageia-dev] 3rd draft of Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center about FAAC

2012-11-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Here is the third draft - I have integrated Liam's suggestions and gave more context for our dilemma. Regards, Shlomi Fish Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( https://www.mageia.org/en/ ), which is a community-developed, operating system, based

Re: [Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:39:43 +0200 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi all, I'm including here a draft of a letter we are planning to send to the Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC- http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ ) about faac vs. cinelerra. (see the last meeting at http

[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
). Note that the SFLC does not charge for its advice (but accepts donations). Any comments will be welcome. Regards, Shlomi Fish = Dear sirs or madams, I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( https://www.mageia.org/en/ ), which is a community

Re: [Mageia-dev] about ruby updates and some broken dependancies

2012-11-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
, the ruby package that caused the build conflict was ruby-yardoc. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft

Re: [Mageia-dev] App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:51:30 +0200 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Jerome, thanks for replying for the previous bug. Here is a new bug I filed now: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80420 And here is another bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80438

[Mageia-dev] App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418

2012-10-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
is object-wide) and not only on its prerequisites. That's not good - we should check each prerequisite as well. Can you look into fixing this? Otherwise, it makes cpan2pkg extremely frustrating to use. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418

2012-10-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Jerome, thanks for replying for the previous bug. Here is a new bug I filed now: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80420 Regards, Shlomi Fish On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:53:09 +0200 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Jerome, I've been trying out CPAN2Pkg

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bash Update revoked customized configuration

2012-10-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
for a more permanent solution than one that will involve changing the system-installed files, then you can either put various unalias commands in ~/.bashrc or alternatively create a 99my_customizations.sh file with them. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Asia-Pacific packager newbie needs mentor

2012-10-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
. Regards, Shlomi Fish So I'm looking to see how I can get a mentor. If there is some other time in which the IRC has people on it, I can meet then, or if someone can send me a personal e-mail letting me know where to upload things. Also the things that I've had ready for submission

Re: [Mageia-dev] Welcome Götz!

2012-10-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
aboard! Welcome! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise Real programmers don’t write workarounds. They tell their users to upgrade

Re: [Mageia-dev] Update to KDE SC 4.9.2

2012-10-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
) in kdegraphics? The digikam problem found for desktop file conflict, is not upstream, it has just been added by using internal kdegraphics building. For reference, the bug report for it is: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7747 Please also comment there. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Alpha 2 is very near

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
: I'm not singling the OP's message in particular, but since this is a common mistake, I thought I'd highlight it. In English, software is an uncountable noun and so one should not say softwares or a software. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Alpha 2 is very near

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Wolfgang, On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:01:44 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/10/12 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: Hi all, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:33:51 +0200 Anne Nicolas enna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there That was a real alpha release! Bugs, flu, tests

[Mageia-dev] Fw: PHP maintenance

2012-10-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:36:51 +0200 From: Oliver Burger oliver@gmail.com To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP maintenance Am 30.09.2012 00:26, schrieb Shlomi Fish: Hi Oliver, On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:36:28 +0200 Oliver Burger

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-09-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
potential incompatibilities (and you can thank the FSF for that!). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl There is an IGLU Cabal, but its only

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP maintenance

2012-09-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
and changes I copied (and copy) from Mandriva done by Oden. I could take php, since I am doing a lot of php development at work. But only if someone else takes Python which I took after Misc left. I'm willing to take Python. Regards, Shlomi Fish Oliver

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release pango-1.32.0-2.mga3

2012-09-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
://blog.trustedadvisortoolkit.com/what-do-you-mean-by-wdym/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs Judaism: God knows you will do shit, does

[Mageia-dev] Pidgin is broken on Mageia Cauldron + A Fix

2012-09-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
revision r259571 . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html How many “one-liners” do I actually write? I don’t know; maybe a couple dozen a day

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bye packaging, hello dev

2012-09-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
a sysadm do it? I'll be happy to take over all the perl packages, and possibly some of the other packages (in order to lift off some responsibility from Jerome Quelin/jq). What do you mean that you don't have a Mageia box to assign nobody there? Can't you set up a VM? Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
Fish cheers, chris. -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ rindolf I am not solvable. I am Turing hard. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http

[Mageia-dev] Fw: Looking for a mentor

2012-09-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:25:22 +0300 From: Liutauras Adomaitis liutauras.adomai...@gmail.com To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a mentor On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Liutauras

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

2012-09-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
. Some students may not have access to wired Ethernet connections and depend on WiFi, hence making net-installs for non-free drivers a catch 22. +1. I agree with that. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a mentor

2012-09-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
to mentor you. I am rindolf on the IRC and Shlomi (Fish) or shlomif elsewhere. Join #mageia-mentoring and we may be able to find you something to do. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org

Re: [Mageia-dev] Weekly meetings

2012-09-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
. :-) Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap The Spanish Inquisition does not expect Chuck Norris. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list

Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

2012-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Better be a tail for the lions, than the head of the jackals. — Pirkei Avot, 4 15 Please reply

Re: [Mageia-dev] How to install a debug package with its dependencies?

2012-09-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
is needed exactly. gdb used to list the debug packages to install It still can, see: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3417#c19 for a workaround. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http

[Mageia-dev] Are we going to have an IRC meeting today?

2012-09-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, can someone authoritative (ennael?) please let us know whether we are going to have an IRC meeting tonight or not? Thanks in advance! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release x11-driver-video-intel-2.20.6-1.mga3

2012-09-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
something behind gnome-shell causing issues with the compositing layer. Everything appears to be working fine in KDE 4 with the desktop effects enabled. I can try with gnome 3 later on. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] searching for plasmoid developers to implement Newbie How-to feature

2012-09-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
or on an Internet web site? Or am I missing something? Regards, Shlomi Fish cheers, Marcello -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Chuck Norris wrote a complete

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can I upgrade dpkg and related packages?

2012-08-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Bruno, On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:10:35 +0200 Bruno Cornec br...@victoria.frmug.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:10:15AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Can I update dpkg? Any replies will be appreciated. I do not see any issue with that. I'm on vacation now, so have not worked

[Mageia-dev] Can I upgrade dpkg and related packages?

2012-08-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
?id=6887 which was reported against the alien package. Can I update dpkg? Any replies will be appreciated. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in

Re: [Mageia-dev] The life After usrMove - KDE failure

2012-08-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
. Same happens with startx. When I manually launch /usr/bin/ksmserver in a terminal, it segfaults. kdebase4-workspace is the newest package, which was installed after completing the usrmove. KDE is working fine here. Does it work for you fine in a new UNIX user? Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] Ruby update issues in cauldron

2012-08-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7052 ( ruby gems' automatic dependency detection [in rpm-build] is broken). Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http

Re: [Mageia-dev] [ANN] dracut 023 now in updates_testing: Feedback wanted

2012-08-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
, Shlomi Fish ETA Wednesday if no-one pipes up with failures before then :) Col -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God gave us two eyes and ten

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdelibs4-4.9.0-2.mga3

2012-08-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
should not call me Rindolf outside IRC. My name is Shlomi. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan In the Technion, there are many ways to get

[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 in VirtualBox fails to upgrade to Mageia Cauldron due to /usr move

2012-07-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
). For the record, I'm trying to restore my backups into the VM to a working state, and ran into a problem, see: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/12/14.html Regards, Shlomi Fish Jul 27 16:28:01 rindolf OK, now /usrmove is giving me trouble. Jul 27 16:28:22 rindolf After

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 in VirtualBox fails to upgrade to Mageia Cauldron due to /usr move

2012-07-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi John, On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:42:03 -0300 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org wrote: 2012/7/31 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: Hi all, I am including here a log of the IRC conversation I had with some people on upgrading my x86-64 VBox virtual machine from Mageia 2 to Mageia Linux

Re: [Mageia-dev] Welcome new packager: vaci0

2012-07-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
team !! Congratulations! And welcome aboard. Regards, Shlomi Fish Cheers, -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ I may be a geek, but I’m a true

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
ownership? How can I fix these issues? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ 95% of Programmers consider 95% of the code

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:04:30 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: BTW, I should note that right now after a few reboots, I am getting these symtoms: 1. I cannot run pm-suspend as user shlomif, only as root. This might be to do with how you login. If you don't use

[Mageia-dev] Fw: ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:21:46 +0100 From: Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! Instructions 'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 23/07/12 11:08 did gyre and gimble

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
# 11/69: lib64dbjava5.1# [/QUOTE] And the rest of the packages refuse to install. What should I do? Regards, Shlomi Fish If you are extra paranoid, or want to see what is going on, then you can

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:46:58 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Colin, On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:12:58 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: OK, so the packages have now all been uploaded. You should see several packages now that you cannot install

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Help building some unbuildable packages: db51 grub

2012-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
or a configure option that causes it to fail. I'll investigate further. Regards, Shlomi Fish The sooner the better if possible :) Cheers Col -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Help building some unbuildable packages: db51 grub

2012-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi again, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:33:52 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Colin, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:09:10 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hi, As part of the usrmove, I need to rebuild both db51 and grub. Neither of them build just now. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Help building some unbuildable packages: db51 grub

2012-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:33:52 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Colin, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:09:10 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hi, As part of the usrmove, I need to rebuild both db51 and grub. Neither of them build just now. I added

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Help building some unbuildable packages: db51 grub

2012-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:00:43 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:53:43 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:33:52 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Colin, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:09

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Help building some unbuildable packages: db51 grub

2012-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:53:43 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:33:52 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Colin, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:09:10 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hi, As part

[Mageia-dev] Packaging mentor looking for apprentices

2012-07-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
to mentor you, please drop me a line. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise I don’t believe in fairies. Oops! A fairy died. I don’t

[Mageia-dev] Upgrading KDE to 4.8.97 (4.9-RC2)?

2012-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
be cancelled) because I was not aware of the proper procedure to follow. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ *shlomif:* hack, hack, hack

Re: [Mageia-dev] RIP Eugeni Dodonov

2012-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
=MTEzNTk I am very sad to learn of this, as I'm sure we all are. He will be missed. I'm sad to hear that. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl

Re: [Mageia-dev] Old OpenSSL HOWTO [was Re: openssl regression]

2012-07-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Running destroy hooks. Request ends. Also, https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/2991 Thanks! libneon's maintainer gave me a patch based on that, and I've now included it in libneon's Cauldron package, which fixed Subversion's https:// support here. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Robert, On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:05:46 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 18:15 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:55:25 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:46 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 19 June

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Robert, please reply to the list. On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:17:45 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 13:14 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Robert, On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:05:46 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 18:15

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ Mastering ‘cat’ is almost as difficult as herding cats. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
libthread_db library /lib64/libthread_db.so.1. and it just sits there - program doesn't start. That's the wrong way to use gdb. You should do: $ gdb /usr/bin/perl $ run /usr/bin/net_applet Also look into gdb's --command flag for start up commands. Regards, Shlomi Fish Didn't get

Re: [Mageia-dev] Remove upgrade functionnality in installer

2012-06-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
know how many people will miss this functionality, but if it simplifies the maintainers' lives, and no longer works properly anyway (because people may install packages that are not on the DVD), then I'm all for it. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Mageia-dev] A Usable Browser Media Playback Plugin At Last - npapi-vlc-2.0.0-1.mga3

2012-06-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi AL13N, On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:52:43 +0200 AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 23:41:59 schreef Shlomi Fish: [...] This implements a media playback plugin for such browsers as Firefox and Chromium (did not try others but they should be fine as well) using the VLC engine

Re: [Mageia-dev] openssl regression

2012-06-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
. To use Subversion, follow the instructions I have given here: https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016405.html Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory

Re: [Mageia-dev] Collaboration policy

2012-06-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
~/npapi-vlc-2.0.0-3.2.src.rpm error: no such option: -m I'm on Cauldron. So either mgarepo or the synposis in the policy should be fixed. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE

[Mageia-dev] Fortune Cookies Collections Policy

2012-06-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
licence (CC-by-sa), but which contains text by many authors and under many licences? I will appreciate any insights. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Public Domain Photos - http

[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc?

2012-06-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
to best test it to make sure nothing got broken. Which programs are using it on a Mageia system that I can use to test? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Star Trek: We, the Living Dead

Re: [Mageia-dev] GCC and GLIBC plans for mga3

2012-06-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
for a full rebuild of Cauldron. Comments? Objections? Does this sound like a good plan? Sounds good. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Public Domain Photos - http

[Mageia-dev] Old OpenSSL HOWTO [was Re: openssl regression]

2012-06-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
, and trying to rebuild libneon0.27 caused %check to fail. This was reported here: http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2012-June/001473.html I tried to build libneon0.27 against gnutls, but I got a compilation error. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:21:37 +0100 Colin

Re: [Mageia-dev] openssl regression

2012-06-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
version solves the problems. Apparently, I was able to fix the problem by rebuilding the xchat source RPM. So, I submitted a new release to the build system. Please try it. Regards, Shlomi Fish Cheers Col

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-06-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
. And if you feel that you can take on another apprentice, don't hesitate to post to this thread. I'm willing to take on another apprentice as long as they can speak English or Hebrew. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi

[Mageia-dev] Giving maint or comaint for the packages here - http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/shikamaru/updates.html

2012-06-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
maintainer or co-maintainer (assuming the latter exists) status to us? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ If at first you don't succeed

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion of roadmap for kde on mageia once cauldron is reopened

2012-05-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
for the time being, instead of upgrading to the KDE-4.9.x-betas and prereleases? Your message is hard to understand. Note that both alternatives are acceptable to me. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 final release is out

2012-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
, Shlomi Fish Thanks everybody for all the hard work during these last months. I guess we can be proud if this release and we hope you will enjoy this new version. Big thanks for last run to tmb and QA team who did not sleep a lot these last days :) Spread Mageia 2 and enjoy

Re: [Mageia-dev] don't update perl modules yet

2012-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
have some new modules to upload, so I'll wait for perl-5.16.0 to land. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ I started out as a BASIC

Re: [Mageia-dev] taglib CVE for MP4 files

2012-05-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs Tcl is Lisp on drugs. Using strings instead of S‐expressions for closures is Evil with one

Re: [Mageia-dev] taglib CVE for MP4 files

2012-05-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi David, On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:50:38 -0700 (PDT) David Walser luigiwal...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 5/14/12, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] taglib CVE for MP4 files To: Mageia development mailing-list

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: xawtv

2012-05-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 10 May 2012 18:06:04 +0200 nicolas vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 14:01:48 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi all, the new release of xawtv fixes this bug - https://bugs.mageia.org

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: xawtv

2012-05-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 4 May 2012 14:01:48 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi all, the new release of xawtv fixes this bug - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5463 . Please push. Regards, Shlomi Fish (who is going to have his Birthday tomorrow (5 May) ). Ping

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: xawtv

2012-05-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, the new release of xawtv fixes this bug - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5463 . Please push. Regards, Shlomi Fish (who is going to have his Birthday tomorrow (5 May) ). -- - Shlomi Fish http

[Mageia-dev] What should we do about bug #237 (Bash adds a \ to variables entered on the command line)?

2012-04-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does Zionism mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism We agree. But do we agree to agree? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http

[Mageia-dev] freeze push: pidgin 2.10.3

2012-03-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ There is an IGLU Cabal, but its only purpose is to deny the existence of an IGLU Cabal. — Martha

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
this aspect? If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be updated. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ Live

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
the people on Freenode, will make it work. If anyone wants to help, I'm rindolf there and I'm also reachable by other forms of IM and by other means: http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ Regards, Shlomi Fish (who is frustrated at the amount of problems the transition to systemd

Re: [Mageia-dev] Network lost with last update

2012-03-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or of your networking interface is) and restart the network service. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a packaging mentor

2012-02-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
is also available as a Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replace Gqview by Geeqie

2012-02-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
it. Any objection ? Go for it. I'm primarily using KDE's gwenview as an image viewer, but geeqie seems nice. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Star Trek: We, the Living Dead - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
behind it so the correct packages will be orphaned? Or is a fresh install in order?? What I normally do is invoke urpmi with the list of packages that I want in which case it says that it will mark them as manually installed and they won't be auto-orphaned. Regards, Shlomi Fish [SNIPPED

Re: [Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:43:21 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I

[Mageia-dev] Welcome New Packagers: barjac and Malo

2011-12-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I'm proud to announce that Barry Jackson (barjac) and Pierre-Malo Denielou (Malo) have both graduated from their packager mentorship process and got submit rights. Welcome to the Mageia Packaging Team! Regards, Shlomi Fish

[Mageia-dev] subversion-1.7.1 Report

2011-11-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
: W155010 not in output)): return output.splitlines() return None So we may wish to delay the upgrade until mgarepo is fixed and until after the first Mageia 2 alpha. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi

Re: [Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section

2011-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
, and my old (and now decommissioned) i586 machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro card until I installed and configured the firmware from non-free and rebuilt the initrd. If you do decide on doing it, please make sure the framebuffer is not used for these cards. Regards, Shlomi Fish So

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